Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt. In 1893, a young Leavitt was hired as a "computer" to analyze images from telescope observations at Harvard College Observatory, Massachusetts. Leavitt studied photographic ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Vera Rubin changed the way we view the Universe. So why don't we hear more about them? Illustrations by Rebecca Hendin Follow BBC Reel on ...

Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minister. She attended Oberlin College and the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe ...

Ligia Bouton's "25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt" installed at the temporary outbound Kendall/MIT station entrance. The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est.